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Re: What is a 'chunker' ?

2003-12-31 23:46:18
Subject: Re: What is a 'chunker' ?
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:42:06 -0500
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:11:25AM +0100, Georg Rehfeld wrote:
> Dear group,
> 
> in 'amstatus.pl.in' from the CVS 1.56 there is handling for _chunkerN_
> (besides dumperN and taper).
> 
> What might that be? Possibly a dumper splitting large dumps, to be
> distributed over more than one tape?

Guessing ...

Holding disk "chunks".

See "chunksize" paramater.

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